MeeGo is a Linux-based platform that was formed when the teams behind the Maemo and Moblin Linux projects merged. MeeGo isn’t actually maintained by Nokia. The Linux Foundation managed the project. But Nokia is one of the primary backers, and the company had planned to put MeeGo on some upcoming smartphones. Intel is another major backer, and that company has been pushing MeeGo for netbooks and tablets. In a statement, Intel says the company is “not blinking on MeeGo,” and remains committed to the platform.

Now developer Andrew Wafaa says he doesn’t think MeeGo for netbooks and notebooks has much of a future. Wafaa is the developer responsible for building a netbook user interface for the popular openSUSE Linux distribution. That UI is based on MeeGo. But now Wafaa reports that he’s convinced the folks behind MeeGo have pretty much stopped all work on the netbook operating system, and as a result he’s going to stop working on the openSUSE MeeGo project, known as Smeegol.

Wafaa’s evidence comes from discussions with developers and a look at the plans for MeeGo 1.2 which don’t show any new features, just bugs that need fixing.

OK, so MeeGo may be on the way out, at least according to one guy who’s in a pretty good position to know. But I mentioned mixed signals in the headline, didn’t I?

So if MeeGo for notebooks is dead, it sounds like someone forgot to tell Fujitsu.

While MeeGo’s future on netbooks and Nokia smartphones remains uncertain, it is an open source project so I’d be surprised if it goes away altogether. The tablet user interface has also shown some promise, although I’m not aware of any major tablets aside from the German WeTab that user MeeGo.

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I sure hope they keep up work on this. I’ve been waiting a while for a smartphone OS that can also run real Linux apps. I know there are Linux ports for some phones, but AFAIK they require rebooting to switch between Linux-without-phone-calls and an OS that can make calls.

Pedro

Nokia would be mistaken if they launch something as advenced as meego to the phone world. A maemo-meego phone is too computer like for the market to accept it now (Yes i love them but i´m a geek). Many companies have made this mistake, nokia should wait till the market make the transition from smartphones to real mobile computers.